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Title: Hello
Fandom: FFVI
Pairing: Celes / Shiva
Prompt: Smile
Rating: G
Words: 300
Spoilers?: Sort of; takes place in the World of Ruin.
Author's Note: None
The sun grew closer to the horizon. At least, Celes guessed that it had done so. Nothing about the sky had changed since she had awoken that morning. It was the same color as her shirt, a purplish-brown matte lit dull orange near the horizon, the struggling light reflecting from the clouds in the darkness.
She returned indoors, drawing the covers up on the now-empty bed and resting her hand on the pillow for a moment before kneeling and reaching beneath it for the box. Potions, ethers, rings... carefully she searched through it, pulling out one thing at a time until she reached the bottom. There, glistening dully in what passed for daylight, were the magicites. She touched them... Ramuh. Kirin. Celes could still feel the magic under her fingertips, the only spark of life left in them. She placed a hand over her heart--somewhere in her body an Esper had been diffused into her. The magic it had unwillingly given flowed in her, reaching out to touch the stones.
Here. This was the one she had been looking for. Wrapping her fingers around it and sitting back, Celes cupped it in her hands. "Hello, Shiva."
The stone grew cold as ice, but it didn't hurt. Celes shut her eyes and breathed in deep, holding it to her chest. She felt Shiva's frozen power melt into her, disappearing under her fingertips as it joined the rest of the magic. Her blood seemed to run cold and she shuddered, but she didn't shy away from it. She had always liked the cold.
Then the whisper in her mind joined the new power in her body. Hello, Celes. The voice of the esper sounded faint, but Celes smiled as she stood and gathered her supplies, walking downstairs to the raft.
Fandom: FFVI
Pairing: Celes / Shiva
Prompt: Smile
Rating: G
Words: 300
Spoilers?: Sort of; takes place in the World of Ruin.
Author's Note: None
The sun grew closer to the horizon. At least, Celes guessed that it had done so. Nothing about the sky had changed since she had awoken that morning. It was the same color as her shirt, a purplish-brown matte lit dull orange near the horizon, the struggling light reflecting from the clouds in the darkness.
She returned indoors, drawing the covers up on the now-empty bed and resting her hand on the pillow for a moment before kneeling and reaching beneath it for the box. Potions, ethers, rings... carefully she searched through it, pulling out one thing at a time until she reached the bottom. There, glistening dully in what passed for daylight, were the magicites. She touched them... Ramuh. Kirin. Celes could still feel the magic under her fingertips, the only spark of life left in them. She placed a hand over her heart--somewhere in her body an Esper had been diffused into her. The magic it had unwillingly given flowed in her, reaching out to touch the stones.
Here. This was the one she had been looking for. Wrapping her fingers around it and sitting back, Celes cupped it in her hands. "Hello, Shiva."
The stone grew cold as ice, but it didn't hurt. Celes shut her eyes and breathed in deep, holding it to her chest. She felt Shiva's frozen power melt into her, disappearing under her fingertips as it joined the rest of the magic. Her blood seemed to run cold and she shuddered, but she didn't shy away from it. She had always liked the cold.
Then the whisper in her mind joined the new power in her body. Hello, Celes. The voice of the esper sounded faint, but Celes smiled as she stood and gathered her supplies, walking downstairs to the raft.